Do you cane your child for serious wrongdoing?

[ThreeCents]

My toddler is 3 year old. Thank for teaching me so much.

[worryfather]

tankee:

I do as what super nanny preached ... leave him there and walk away (and peek out-of-his sight). he will be crying. if he gets up and move away from the corner, I will appear and put him back there and repeat the cycle (extending the timeout duration by a min each cycle).


when times' up, i go to him and ask him whether he know what he did wrongly, what is the correct behaviour ... if he does not response, I will walk away again.

it is very painful to see him crying there by himself, but it works wonders.

Thanks to tankee and jedamum. Your advice sounds useful. Will try to use that one day and hopefully will work on my daughter.

[krazy]

i use two methods actually, the thinking corner and the spanking.


when we are at home, the thinking corner comes more into play.

when my girl was younger like 2 yr old, she was spanked once with a cane (by that, i mean, those white little rods that come attached with balloons). But I didn't just cane her. First I warned her, like I told her to stop her misbehaviour by the count of 3. Then I also told her that if she didn't after 3 was out, she would be caned once. If she insisted and continued, and I had to count till 4, she would have 2 strokes.

Of course, she tried. But only once because I carried out what I said I would. So now, especially when we are out, I only had to count to 2 max if she is within earshot or show her the countings with my fingers and yes, it also never went pass 2 before she stops.